UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

• Ph.D. in Historical Musicology (1995)
  • Dissertation: “The Genesis of Richard Strauss’s Macbeth” (James Haar, advisor)
• M.A. in Music History and Literature (1984)
  • Thesis: “The Canzonas and Sonatas of Maurizio Cazzati”

WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY, West Chester, PA

• B.S. in Music Education, cum laude (1975)

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, Orlando, FL: 2002-present

• Associate Professor of Music (awarded tenure May 2008)
• Assistant Professor of Music (2002-2008)

CENTRE COLLEGE, Danville, KY: 1999-2002

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Humanities

NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Lincoln, NE: 1997-1999

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

ADJUNCT & PART-TIME POSITIONS

• Meredith College, Raleigh, NC: 1994
  • Adjunct Instructor of Music History
• North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC: 1993-94
  • Adjunct Lecturer in Music History (full year, 1/2-position)
• Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC: 1985-87
  • Adjunct Instructor of Music
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1980-86
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

"Strauss and the Business of Music", The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, Charles Youmans, ed., (Cambridge University Press) [forthcoming, 2010]

“‘Reveal Nothing to Him of His Market Value’: The Publication of Strauss’s First Three Tone Poems”
[accepted for publication]

“From Hair to Rent: Is ‘Rock’ A Four-Letter Word on Broadway?,” The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, rev. sec. ed., William Everett and Paul Laird, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2008) [first edition published, 2002]

“From 'Too Many Works' to 'Wrist Exercises' : The Abstract Instrumental Compositions of Richard Strauss” (chapter 6, pp. 191-231) and
“Selected Bibliography” (pp. 411-437),
The Richard Strauss Companion, Mark-Daniel Schmid, ed. (Praeger Press, 2003)

Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism, Murray Steib, editor (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999) [1,000-word entries with bibliographies]: "Irving Berlin," "Edward Elgar," "Jerome Kern," & "William Grant Still"

“Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (1818-1893): Some Biographical Notes on Richard Strauss’s Composition Teacher,” Richard Strauss-Blätter 37 (June 1997): 54-74

“The Autograph of Strauss’s Festmarsch, o.Op. 87 (T 157),” Richard Strauss-Blätter 27 (June 1992): 60-79

Fontes Artis Musicae: Reviews of the following publications:

• Scott Messing, Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras and V. 2: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (University of Rochester Press, 2007) [forthcoming]
• David Hurwitz, Sibelius : The Orchestral Works : An Owner's Manual, Unlocking the Masters No. 12 (Amadeus Press, 2007) [forthcoming, 2010]
• David Daniels, Orchestral Music : A Handbook, 4th ed. [v. 54, n. 4 (2007): 611-12]
• Franz Trenner, Richard Strauss Werkverzeichnis (1993 edition) [v. 42 (1995): 382-4]
• Lorraine Gorrell, The Nineteenth-Century German Lied [v. 41 (1994): 394-6]

Journal of Musicological Research: Reviews of the following publications:

• Thomas L. Riis, Frank Loesser (Yale University Press, 2007) and
  James Leve, Kander and Ebb (Yale University Press, 2009)
  [combined review in preparation]
• Charles Youmans, Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism. [v. 26, no. 1 (2007): 75-78]
• Christopher Morris, Reading Opera Between the Lines: Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg [v. 23 (2004): 117-120]

Kurt Weill Newsletter: Revies of the following publications:

• “…dass alles auch hätte anders kommen können.” Beiträge zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. V. Susanne Schaal-Gotthardt, Luitgard Schader u. Heinz-Jürgen Winkler. Frankfurter Studien Veröffentlichungen des Hindemith-Institutes Frankfurt/Main Bd. XII (Mainz: Schott, 2009) [in preparation]
• “Kurt Weill: Der neue Orpheus” (ASV CD DCA 987) and “Korngold/Weill/Krenek: Violin Konzerte” (Decca 452-481-2) 16, No. 1 (Spring 1998): 23

Music Library Association Notes: Reviews of the following publications:

• Lawrence Kramer, Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss [v. 63 (2006): 116-8]
• Kurt Weill, The Firebrand of Florence, The Kurt Weill Edition, Series I, Vol. 18; and Kurt Weill, Sechs ausgewählte Stücke aus Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit, and Four Walt Whitman Songs [v. 62 (2005): 481-86]
  "Communication" v. 62, n 4 1076-77.
• Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky, Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere [v. 58 (2001): 385-6]
• Michael Kater, Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits [v. 57 (2000): 350-1]
• Michael Kennedy, Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma,
  Matthew Boyden, Richard Strauss, and
  Bryan Gilliam, The Life of Richard Strauss [v. 56 (2000): 929-32]
• D. Kern Holoman, ed., The Nineteenth-Century Symphony [v. 54 (1998): 919-20]
• Gabriella Hanke Knaus, Aspekte der Schlußgestaltung in den sinfonischen Dichtungen und Bühnenwerke von Richard Strauss [v.54 (1997): 89-90]
• Bryan Gilliam, ed., Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work, and
  Bryan Gilliam, ed., Richard Strauss and His World [v. 50 (1994): 979-82]
• David B. Greene, Listening to Strauss Operas [v. 49 (1993): 1030-1]
• Denis Wilde, The Development of Melody in the Tone Poems of Richard Strauss [v. 47 (1991): 1135-7]
• Franz Trenner, Richard Strauss Werkverzeichnis (1985 edition) [v. 42 (1985): 292-3]

Nineteenth-Century Music Review: Review of the following recording:

• Richard Strauss, Symphony No. 2 in F minor (CHAN 10236 X) (Chandos Classics, 2004) [v. 3 (2006): 147-50]

Miscellaneous Reviews and Reports:

• “The Great American Brass Band Festival,” The Bulletin of the Society for American Music 26, no. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2000): 56-7
• “Chapel Hill, NC: ‘Symposium on Haydn’s The Creation’,” Ars Musica Denver 4 (Fall 1991): 44-6

“'Playin’ House' : Broadway’s 'First' Rock ‘n Roll Song”

• Southern Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (5-6 February 2010, University of Florida) [refereed]

“The Sonata Goes Moonlighting: Alternative Sources of Income for Musicologists”
(AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues Session)

• National Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (12-15 November 2009, Philadelphia, PA) [invited]

“Bye Bye Birdie : Rock 'n' Roll Comes to Broadway”

• American Musical Theater Conference
  (2-5 April 2008, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY)

“Like Father, Like Son, or Something More? : Franz Strauss’s ‘Copies’ of his Son’s Manuscripts”

• Conference on 19th-Century Music
  (16-19 July 2009, University of Kansas) [refereed]
• Southern Chapter Meeting of the College Music Society (27-28 February 2009, University of Central Florida) [refereed]
• Southern Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (29 February-1 March 2008, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL)
• Strauss Among the Scholars: An International Forum
  (29 June-1 July 2007, Oxford University)

“Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'”

• Winter Park Bach Festival Choral Masterwork Series (Invited Presentation)
  (12 April 2008, Rollins College)

“Richard Strauss’s Music for Winds” (Invited Presentation)

• National Meeting of the College Band Directors National Association
  (28-31 March 2007, University of Michigan)

“Form and Deformation in Richard Strauss’s Macbeth”

• Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
  (4-7 July 2006, University of Manchester)
• Dublin International Conference on Music Theory
  (23-25 June 2005, University College Dublin, Ireland)

“The ‘Rock Musical’ and the ‘Rock’ Musical : Some Observations on Terminology”

• Southern Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (3-4 February 2006, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL)
• University of Florida Musicology Lecture Series 2004-05 (Invited Presentation)
  (19 January 2005, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

“From Program Annotations to Weekend Critic and Beyond : Writing About Music for General Audiences” : AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues Session

• National Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (11-14 November 2004, Seattle, Washington)

“‘Reveal Nothing to Him of His Market Value’: The Publication of Strauss’s First Three Tone Poems”

• Symposium of the International Musicological Society
  (11-16 July 2004, Melbourne, Australia)
• Eleventh Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
  (28 June-2 July 2000, Royal Holloway College, University of London)
• South-Central Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (14-15 April 2000, University of Tennessee at Martin)
• National Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (7-10 November 1996, Baltimore)

“Neatness Counts : Orchestration in Richard Strauss’s Compositional Method”

• Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
  (6-9 July 2004, University of Durham)
• Southern Chapter Meeting of the College Music Society
  (19-21 February 2004, Southern Mississippi University, Hattiesburg, MS)
• Southern Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (13-14 February 2004, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

“The Search for Academic Employment” : AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues Session

• National Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (13-16 November 2003, Houston, Texas)

“What’s in a Name? : Defining the ‘Rock Musical’”

• South-Central Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (6-7 April 2001, Clayton College & State University, Clayton, GA)

“Program and Form in Richard Strauss’s Macbeth”

• Great Plains Chapter Meeting of the College Music Society
  (6-7 March 1998, Wayne [NE] State College)
• South-Central Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (11-12 April 1997, Middle Tennessee State University)

“The First Version of Richard Strauss’s Macbeth”

• National Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (5-8 November 1992, Pittsburgh)

“Richard Strauss’s Sketches for Macbeth”

• International Richard Strauss Conference
  (5-8 April 1990, Duke University)

“Richard Strauss, His Father and an Unknown Manuscript”

• Southeast Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society
  (23 September 1989, Wake Forest University)

Orlando Sentinel: 2003-present

• Classical Music Criticism & Preview Articles [c. 125 published reviews and articles through January 2010]

Compact Disc Liner Annotations

• Donald L. Oehler, Clarinet Solo Recital [works by Reinecke, Reger, Burgmuller, Genzmer, Uhl] (Centaur CRC 2853)
• "The North Carolina Symphony" [works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky, Gerhart Zimmermann, cond.]
• "MMC New Century, Vol. XII" [works by Lomon, Whipple, McKinley, Suber] (MMC 2072)
• "The Music of Leslie Bassett" (MMC 2090)

Miscellaneous Program Annotations

• Carnegie Hall (New York City) : 2003-present
• The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra: 2002
• The Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College: 2001-2002
• Lincoln (NE) Civic Orchestra: 1997-1999
• Broyhill Chamber Music Series, “An Appalachian Summer,” Boone, NC: 1991-1998
• “Still Going On,” Raleigh, NC: 8 October 1995 [William Grant Still centennial]
• “Richard Strauss and His World,” The Bard Music Festival: August 1992

The North Carolina Symphony: 1985-2004

• Chief program annotator
• Pre-Concert Lecturer (Raleigh concerts, 1988-97),
  Organized and directed pre-concert lectures in Chapel Hill (1989-92)
• Edited performing edition & parts for premiere of Richard Strauss, Festmarsch, o.Op. 87 (T 157): 24-29 January 1991

The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC: 1995-96

• Classical Music Criticism
• Sunday Feature Articles:
  • “The Ciompi [String Quartet]’s Fourth Dimension” (11 February 1996)
  • “Art Song for Aids” (5 November 1995)
  • “Second Movement” (1 October 1995) [on William Grant Still]

Brian Haymans, “Steve Blackwell: Florida Folk Musician” (M.A. Thesis, Fall-Spring 2009-10)

David Roby, “Heavy Metal, Hard Core, or Death Metal?: Sorting Out the Genres” (Honors Thesis, Fall-Spring 2009-10)

Eric Smith, “Abraham Lincoln in Civil War-era Sheet Music” (B.A. Capstone Project, Fall 2009)

Adriana Venturini, “The Dresden ‘Cello School” (M.A. Thesis, Fall-Spring 2008- 09)

Erin Stillson, “The Musicals of Stephen Sondheim” (Directed Experience, Spring 2009)

Carissa VanDalen, “Religious Music in America” (Directed Experience, Fall 2008)

Adriana Venturini, “A Survey of ‘Cello Audition Lists” (Graduate Directed Study, Spring 2008)

Cynthia Jimenez, “Music and the Bible” (B.A. Capstone Project, Spring 2008)

Matthew Hyder, “‘Trouser Roles’ in the History of Opera” (UCF Honors Thesis, 2006-07)

Chase Padgett, “The Professional Solo Singing Guitar Player” (B.A. Capstone Project, Fall 2006)

Natalie Smith, “French Opera” (Directed Study, UCF, Spring 2005)

Marysol Quevedo, “Russian Music of the 19th and 20th Centuries” (Directed Study, UCF, Fall 2004)

Andrew Wiseman, “Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, D. 821” (Directed Study, UCF, Fall 2002)

Bryan Proksch, “A Technical and Interpretative Method for the Natural Trumpet” (John C. Young Scholar Senior Thesis, Centre College, 1999-2000)

M.A. Thesis Advisor and Reader (North Carolina Central University, 1993-94)

Music Department Graduate M.A. Committee (University of Central Florida, 2008- )

Library Liaison (Music Department, University of Central Florida, 2009- )

College of Arts & Humanities Scholarship & Awards Committee (University of Central Florida, 2008- )

Music Department Search Committee: Undergraduate Advisor/Instructor (University of Central Florida, Spring 2009)

Music Department Curriculum & Assessment Committee (University of Central Florida, 2002-08)

Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Selection Committee, College of Arts & Humanities (University of Central Florida, Spring 2006)

Music Department Advisor for B.A. in Music candidates (University of Central Florida, 2003-05)

Music Department Master of Music Planning Committee (University of Central Florida, 2003-2005)

Music Department Search Committee: Music Appreciation, Music Theory & Music Fundamentals positions (University of Central Florida, Fall 2002)

General College Advisor (Centre College, 2000-2002)

Computer Services Committee (Centre College, 2000-2002)

John C. Young Scholar Senior Thesis Advisor (Centre College, 1999-2000)

Library Liaison (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1997-99)

General College Advisor (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1998-99)

Search Committee: Band Director/Music Education (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1998)

Theater Journal [2009]

Music Department Promotion & Tenure Committee, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater [2008]

Eastman Studies in Music, University of Rochester Press [2007]

Journal of the American Musicological Society [2005]

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [2004, 2007]

University of Michigan Press [2003]

Canadian University Music Review [2002]

Cambridge University Press [2001]

The University of Central Florida

• FCTL Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2008): for MA in Music Assessment
• FCTL Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2006): for GEP assessment revision
• FCTL Faculty Development Grant (Winter 2005): for BA/BM/BME degree revision
• FCTL Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2005): for MUH 4211-4212 curriculum revision
• FCTL Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2003): for MUH 4211-4212 course web site enhancement
University Special Grant for Undergraduate Teaching Equipment (Spring 2003): for the purchase of sound equipment used in MUH 4211-4212 and other MUH/MUL courses

Centre College

• Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2001): “Recovering American Musical Theater References from Sheet Music (1890-1920)” [continues 1999 AMRC project -see below]
Course Development Grant (2001): CentreTerm Course in American Music

American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder: June-July 1999

• Travel Fellowship (Project Title: “Theatrical References on American Sheet Music Covers: 1890-1920”)

Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Travel Grant: Fall 1992
• Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship: Spring 1988
• Smith Graduate Research Fund Award: Spring 1986

Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Graduate Teaching Assistantships: 1980-86

• Committee on the Moderated Electronic Discussion List: 2004-2007
  • Past Moderator (Nov. 2006 - Nov. 2007)
  • Lead Moderator of the AMS-L and Chair of the Committee (Sept. 2005 - Nov. 2006)
  • Assistant Moderator (Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2005)
• Southern Chapter Representative to the Council: 2003 - 2006
• Committee on Career-Related Issues: 2002-2005
• Southeast Chapter Student Representative to the Council: 1984

The Society for American Music

The College Music Society

Internationale Richard Strauss Gesellschaft (Vienna)

(revised: 1 January 2010)